Team building according to Mat Latos

Did you know the Giants were a bunch of mercenaries, unlike the Padres, a real team? That’s kind of what I got out of this quote from Padres starter Mat Latos via Scott Miller of cbssports.com:

“Baseball works in funny ways. The only way I could honestly put it is, we could be like the Giants and go and change our whole lineup, put guys with ‘San Francisco Giants’ across their jerseys. We didn’t.

“We added two guys (Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick) We’ve been the same team all year. We haven’t just gone and grabbed guys from other teams.”